Irvin Jim

Irvin Jim was the General Secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, the largest trade union in South Africa.

Biography
Irvin Jim was born in South Africa to a Bantu family, and he became the General Secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa. He served as the NUMSA spokesperson when it was expelled from the Congress of South African Trade Unions in November 2014, and he criticized the African National Congress for xenophobic violence in South Africa. In a 2015 interview in Washington DC, United States, he claimed that NUMSA's goal was to create a Marxist-Leninist "Socialist Republic of South Africa", and he said that the ANC had betrayed the South African revolution and had supported the white politicians. Jim, Mosiuoa Lekota, and Zwelinzima Vavi all campaigned against political corruption with the Congress of the People party.